From: Mark A Rada Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:20:15 GMT Subject: [PATCHv4 3/3] gitweb: update INSTALL w.r.t. snapshot format changes Message-ID: <5250C22D-E4D9-4A7C-ABF5-D01316FB1B56@uwaterloo.ca> Documentation is now a little bit clearer. -- Mark A Rada (ferrous26) marada@uwaterloo.ca -------->8----------------- From: Mark Rada Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:36:54 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] gitweb: update INSTALL w.r.t. snapshot format changes Details about how to enable/disable a compression format and how to set the compression level for any given format, except Zip which does not have that ability to set a compression level. Signed-off-by: Mark Rada --- gitweb/INSTALL | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL index 18c9ce3..d53e1bb 100644 --- a/gitweb/INSTALL +++ b/gitweb/INSTALL @@ -123,6 +123,17 @@ GITWEB_CONFIG file: $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz']; $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1; +Furthermore, if you enable overriding of the snapshot feature you can +still disable specific compression formats from being used (XZ is +disabled by default). You can also change the default compression level +for non-Zip formats by specifying the level after the compressor name. +For example, we can disable BZip2 compression, and enable XZ compression +at level 6 by adding the following to your GITWEB_CONFIG file: + + $known_snapshot_formats{'tbz2'}{'disabled'} = 1; + $known_snapshot_formats{'txz'}{'disabled'} = 0; + $known_snapshot_formats{'txz'}{'compressor'} = ['xz','-6']; + Gitweb repositories ------------------- -- 1.6.4